“Boris’s Broke Brass Bonking Bus Boss” attends men only event.

Sir Peter, pictured here with Mayor Boris Johnson, has been criticised for attending the men-only events.

The head of London’s transport agency has been criticised for attending a men-only Christmas dinner organised by a transport industry society.

Sir Peter Hendy, the £330,000pa head of Transport for London, has admitted to attending the Transport Golfing Society annual dinner in December as a guest of bus maker Alexander Dennis.

The society’s website described the event as including “a glamorous string quartet playing exciting music in even more exciting tight dresses” and “a troupe of Can Can dancers”.

It also confirms membership is only open “to gentlemen associated with the transport industry” and that the annual December gathering is “for gentlemen only.”

Such male-only membership rules are increasingly seen as inappropriate and societies and clubs around the country are under mounting pressure to admit woman and increase their diversity.

Ask to comment on the commissioner’s presence, TfL issued the following brief statement: “Sir Peter Hendy attended the event as a guest of the bus company, Alexander Dennis. This was publicly declared in accordance with TfL policy.”

Although the statement failed to confirm whether he attended in previous years, TfL’s website shows Sir Peter >listed receiving hospitality< from Alexander Dennis on 13th December 2012 and 12th December 2013 – the same dates as the golf society’s dinners.

In addition to his generous salary Sir Peter enjoys regular tax-payer funded meals at some of London’s top members-only clubs and restaurants and regularly clocks up thousands of pounds of taxi, minicab trips and mobile phone bills.

His presence at the TGS dinner has been criticised by Baroness Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly, who said: “I’m shocked twice over. First, that our Transport Commissioner would attend something that has such sleazy sexist overtones. Secondly, does he really think that only men are worth listening to on Transport issues? Peter, please never go again.”

Earlier this month three directors from Lothian Buses, which is owned by Edinburgh City Council, >were banned from attending< the dinner after bosses ruled it was “inappropriate”.

Baroness Jones says Mayor Boris Johnson, who is also the chair of TfL, “should copy Edinburgh and make it a clear policy across the GLA family that employees shouldn’t attend these.”